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Feb 4 
Flowers have multiple functions. They are the genitalia of plants, producing seed for future generations. They can visually attract pollinators, mechanically disperse pollen, absorb and focus sunlight to produce optimum temperatures for pollen tube growth, develop fruit to encourage other species to assist in seed dispersal, and in at least one case, they can encourage reproductive behaviour in a primate. In this paper, we learn that flowers can act as ears, detecting sound from flying pollinators and then enriching the sugar content of nectar.

Flowers respond to pollinator sound within minutes by increasing nectar sugar concentration

March 4 
With the exponential increase of plastic production and use, what is all this plastic doing to us? How much is actually getting into our bodies? Where is it coming from? What can we do about it? Come to SciNight and find out what we know so far 

Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains

April 1
Driving the wrong way in traffic is bad, even if you are a moon.

Retrograde predominance of small saturnian moons reiterates a recent retrograde collisional disruption

May 6
A SciNight halfway to Halloween macabre special 

Hawaiian caterpillar patrols spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts